Yury Lednik, a TV presenter and deputy head of Belarusian State Television and Radio Company (BSTRC)'s Television News Agency who often criticized Alyaksandr Lukashenka's political opponents in his shows, has died at the age of 38 after a battle with cancer.....

Belarusian Potash Company (BPC) may soon become a leader among potash traders, Valery Kiryyenka, director general of Belarusian potash giant AAT Belaruskali said during a show broadcast by state television network Belarus One on Sunday evening.....

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) expects to sign an agreement for a $3.5 billion loan to construct a refinery in Turkey in May, Bloomberg reported with the reference to the chief executive for the company’s Turkish unit Kenan Yavuz.....

A program of developing cooperation between Belarus and Russia's Altai Krai province in 2014 and 2015 was signed during a September 26-27 visit by Belarusian First Deputy Foreign Minister Alyaksandr Mikhnevich to Barnaul.....

Alena Kudravets, director general of Belarusian Potash Company (BPC), and Dmitry Osipov, director general of Russia's potash producer Uralkali, met in Moscow on January 31 to discuss cooperation between the two companies, BPC spokesperson Iryna Sawchanka told BelaPAN.....

The Development Bank of Belarus has signed a framework agreement with the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank, commonly known as the PTA Bank, on the general conditions for the issuance of export loans for purchases of goods and services from residents of the Republic of Belarus with insurance coverage provided by Belarus&rsqu....

An interstate agreement on military-technical cooperation may be signed as a result of the forthcoming visit of the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to Belarus, Udayanga Weeratunga, the Moscow-based Sri Lankan ambassador to the Russian Federation and Belarus who is a first cousin of the president, said in an interview with the Belarusia....

The expansion of Belarusian-Azerbaijani cooperation in the agricultural sector was discussed during a meeting of the Interstate Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation in Baku on November 12.....

Belarus and China are actively devising a strategic partnership program for the period until 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Anatol Tozik, who co-chairs the Belarusian-Chinese Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation, said Friday in Minsk, speaking at meeting held at the House of Friendship on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the establishm....

The House of Representatives of the Belarusian National Assembly on November 13 passed the ratification bill for an agreement on technical assistance between Belarus and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).....

Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich met Thursday in Minsk with Grigory Rapota, state secretary of the Belarusian-Russian Union State to discuss the agenda of the forthcoming meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State, reported the Belarusian government’s news agency BelTA.....

Thousands of people, including Ukrainian opposition leaders Vitali Klitschko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Oleh Tyahnybok, turned out Sunday to pay final respects to Mikhail Zhyznewski, a Belarusian citizen killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and police whose body was lying in state at St.....

Belarus and China will join their forces for countering criticism of their human rights records by "certain forces in the West," Alyaksandr Lukashenka said at a meeting with Meng Jianzhu, secretary of the Central Politics and Law Commission of the Communist Party of China, in Minsk on November 1.....